There is no glass slipper for the Aggies

If you felt a tremor in The Force last night, it was the hearts of 20,000 Aggies in the Alamodome — and hundreds of thousands more around the state — being ripped out, thrown to the ground and stomped on as their Cinderella basketball season came to end.

The Memphis Tigers beat the Aggies 65-64 with two free throws in the waning seconds. Between that and a desperation half-court shot, came an inexplicable call that will haunt the maroon faithful for years. There was Aggie angst off the court too, as the perfect storm gathered in the world of coaching jobs. And there was another game in the Alamodome, too, but no one in Texas cares about that one.

Hordes of A&M fans are leaving town today, so you can stop memorizing those old Aggie jokes. You won’t get a chance to use them.

A night of decisions at the Alamodome

 Brent Zwerneman, in his Web-only mailbag column talks about the newly-vacant Kentucky coaching job and how Aggies are worried that coach Billy Clyde Gillespie will go there.